Hairpin holder



Patented July 4, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Hamm HOLDER Alfred E.Posner, Dorchester, Mass.

Application January 8, 1938, Serial No. 184,050

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a hair pin holder 'for holding a bunchof hair pins on the Awrist and is principally used for a hair dresserparticularly in dressing hair.

It is common practice in many beauty parlors, for 'the hair dresser,either in waving or setting the hair to givethe patron a handful of hairpins, which the patron hands to the operator as they are needed. Whilethis is unobjectionable in many respects, still it is not whollydesirable to have the patron do even this little part in the hairdressing. In some shops an assists aids in doing various things and alsoserves to hand the operator the hair pins When needed. However it isreadily seen that this necessitates extra help. Attempts have been madeto substitute other means for making hair pins readily available, butfor the most part these have been cumbersome and actually do not savemuch time for even merely picking up the pins from a table or traynearby the place where the operator is working.

In the present invention the applicant has overcome these objects inthat the pins are not only readily picked up by the device on theoperators wrist where it is placed but also they are readily removed bythe operator in such a position that they may be applied easily to thehair.

In the present invention the operator uses a specic type of magnet whichis shapedin a convenient fashion and which is applied to the wrist insuch a way that the operator merely needs to place the wrist over thebox or tray containing the hair pins which are readily picked up and ina position to be used immediately.

In the present invention it is assumed that the hair pins used are madeof magnetic material, that is material which is responsive to magneticilux so that they may be picked up by a magnet. Magnets for picking uparticles are of course not new, but the present invention resides in thespecific construction of the article of manufacture which makes thedevice particularly useful in the present application.

Other merits and advantages of the present invention will be moreclearly understood from the description and drawing annexed to thepresent specification, in which:

Figure 1 shows a plan view of the device.

Figure 2 shows a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 shows a detail of the shape of the magnet used in theinvention.

In the gures there is used a magnet I of the permanent magnet typeindicated in Figure 3 which has .a substantial semi-circular outercontour and an inner contour oi' a horse-shoe shape forming two poles 2and 3 across which the hair (o1. ris-.367)

pins may be held. In fact it will be noted that the magnet faces 2 and 3are sufilciently far apart so that the pins will be held not only acrossthe end pole elements 2 and 3 but also across the prongs 4 and 5. Thisis accomplished by having the space between the pole faces 2 and 3substantially the same width as that across the prongs 4 and 5. A bandof non magnetic metal such as copper or the like extends around the endof the magnet from one side to the other side as indicated in Figure land Figure 2 by the numeral 6. This band is substantially U shaped insection and has as indicated in Figure 1 a face of a disc or plate shapeas indicated by 1 in Figure 1 which covers the entire opening in thecenter of the magnet and extends substantially over the sides oi themagnet holding in place on one side the wrist strap 8 of leather orother material, which is likewise larger in area where it is held to themagnet as shown at 9 in Figure 1. A screw 20 i0 or other similar meansis used to clamp the two plate members 1 of the band together and holdthe leather strap tightly in place against the magnet. In this way themagnet is entirelycovered and oiers no place for the pins to catch andprevent their easy removal.

In the operation oi the device. the operator has the article applied tohis wrist like a wrist watch. He dips his wrist into the pin tray andthe pins lay on flat on the magnet across from pole to 30 pole or prongto prong in .generally the same direction. The operator removes them bymerely plucking them off oi the holder, the top ones being plucked offiirst .until they all are used up.

If the pins in the tray are all faced in the same direction, they willbe picked up in the same manner by the magnet and the operator thereforedoes not need to look at the holder or the pins as he takes them in hishands. A suftlcient number oi' pins may be picked up at once so that theoperator is not compelled to reach to the tray but very few times evenduring a type of hair dressing in which a. great many pins are used.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

Means for holding hair pins comprising a horse shoe magnet, a nonmagnetic member having two opposed plates positioned over the innerperiphery ofthe horse shoe substantially covering the same with aportion extending around the open end of the horse shoe substantially inline with the pole faces of the horse shoe magnet and joined to the saidplates, a strap inserted between .the iace of the horse shoe magnet andone ot ALFRED E. POSNR.

